Volume 6, Number 7 (September/October 2008)

Fourth Annual
Chicago Supportive Oncology Conference
2008 Meeting Program and Abstracts
October 15–18, 2008, Hotel InterContinental, Chicago, Illinois

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Conference Schedule

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Educational Program Abstracts

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Scientific Abstracts

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Original Research

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Pediatric Narrative Oncology: Interprofessional Training to Promote Empathy, Build Teams, and Prevent Burnout
Stephen A. Sands, PsyD, Patricia Stanley, MA, and Rita Charon, MD, PhD

Departments of Pediatrics and Psychiatry, Department of Medicine, and Program in Narrative Medicine, Columbia University College of Physicians and Surgeons, New York, New York

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Is "Chemobrain" a Transient State? A Prospective Pilot Study Among Persons with Non-Small Cell Lung Cancer
Kriscinda A. Whitney, PhD, Paul H. Lysaker, PhD, Amy R. Steiner, PsyD, Julie N. Hook, PhD, Deborah D. Estes, RN, OCN, CCRP, and Nasser H. Hanna, MD

Richard L. Roudebush VA Medical Center, Indianapolis, Indiana; Indiana University School of Medicine, Indianapolis; University of Virginia, Charlottesville; and Rush University Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

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Commentary

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Hospice Home Nursing
Paul R. Helft, MD

Indiana University School of Medicine and Charles Warren Fairbanks Center for Medical Ethics at Clarian Health, Indianapolis, Indiana

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Hospice by Another Name...It's Still Hard to Talk About Dying
Lidia Schapira, MD

Harvard Medical School and Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston

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Letter to the Editor

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Sodium-Wasting Nephropathy Caused by Cisplatin in Esophageal Cancer
Loui Abdelghani, MD, Kunjam Modha, MD, Eman Albaddawi, MD, Seshan Subramanian, MD, FACP

Mercy Hospital and Medical Center, Chicago, Illinois

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